Happy Birthday to the late GREAT Steve Ditko!!!
[CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR="#FF0000"][I]Tales to Astonish #61[/I] Nov 1964[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]"Now Walks the Android"[/SIZE]
Putting on a show for hospitalized children, Giant-Man and Wasp are interrupted by police sirens.
Egghead is making a daring escape from the law, escaping into the sewers and seeking refuge in his secret hideout.
He tests out a new device that allows lifeless objects to obey his commands.
He steals a store manikin and brings it back to his hideout.
He coats it in a special wax compound that will allow him to control it with his mind and makes it grow in size.
Egghead begins his plot to pit his android against Giant-Man.
The next day, Giant-Man and Wasp return home in their new Converti-Car, and check their mail.
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They find an invitation from a TV studio to create a show based on their adventures.
Giant-Man wants nothing to do with it, but the Wasp talks him into going with her.
Flying to the address, Giant-Man begins to get suspicious.
However, they walk in anyway, and find themselves trapped in the building with Egghead's android.
Egghead tells the heroes that they cannot escape unless they defeat the android.
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They also have under an hour to do so; otherwise, the building will run out of air and they will suffocate.
Egghead has the upper hand, until Giant-Man realizes that Egghead experiences the same sensations as the android.
He spins the android around, until Egghead grows dizzy. He forces Egghead to free them before stopping,
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and after they are free, they direct the android to walk into the near-by harbor.
Script by Stan Lee. Art by [B]Steve Ditko[/B] [url]https://13thdimension.com/13-covers-a-steve-ditko-birthday-celebration-4/[/url]
and George Roussos (as George Bell).[/CENTER]